Industry Updates
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Industry Updates
Ó ASM International 2020
BMW Group Opens Additive Manufacturing Campus for R&D, Prototyping, and Production The BMW Group, Munich, has officially opened its new additive manufacturing campus, bringing together production of prototype and series parts under one roof, along with research into new 3D printing technologies, and associate training for the global rollout of tool-less production.
currently employs up to 80 associates and operates about 50 industrial systems that work with metals and plastics. Another 50 systems are in operation at production sites around the world. In 2016, BMW i Ventures invested in the Silicon Valley-based company Carbon, whose digital light synthesis technology achieved a breakthrough in planar processes, using a planar light projector to enable super-fast component production. Further investments were made in 2017, when the BMW Group became involved with Desktop Metal, a start-up specializing in additive manufacturing of metal components and developing innovative, highly productive manufacturing procedures. Close collaborations with Desktop Metal continue. In the same year, BMW i Ventures invested in the U.S. startup Xometry, the world’s leading platform for on-demand manufacturing. With its extensive network of manufacturing companies specializing in fields such as 3D printing, Xometry provides fast access to components. The latest investment was in the German start-up ELISE, which allows engineers to produce component DNA containing all the technical requirements for the part, from load requirements and manufacturing restrictions to costs and potential optimization parameters. ELISE then uses this DNA, along with established development tools, to automatically generate optimum components. For more information: www.press.bmwgroup.com.
Curtiss-Wright’s Microseal Coating Protects Mars Rover from Shock, Radiation, and Vibration BMW’s new facility will house the company’s IDAM and POLYLINE 3D printing research projects. Photo via The BMW Group
Last year, the BMW Group produced about 300,000 parts by additive manufacturing. The additive manufacturing campus
Curtiss-Wright’s Surface Technologies Division, Paramus, N.J., announces that its proprietary Microseal impingement lubricant coating process has been utilized on numerous components on NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, many within the sample caching system on the Perseverance rover.
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GKN Powder Metallurgy Validates Dual-Phase Steel Powder for Powder Bed Fusion AM GKN Powder Metallurgy, Bonn, is validating the use of DP 600 dual-phase steel on the EOS M300-4 additive manufacturing platform as the industrialization and digitalization of additive manufacturing (IDAM) project reaches the halfway stage.
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover
‘‘We are very proud that our Microseal technology was selected by NASA to support this important mission,’’ says David Rivellini, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CurtissWright Surface Technologies. ‘‘High performance in harsh conditions typical to spac
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